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Hack&Lube · 04-13-2012, 06:16 AM

I found Swedish made snus at Macs store under the brand Swedish Match General.

It's $13 a tin there and about 15mg of nicotine per 0.5g portion. Snus is made of steamed tobacco bags (instead of fire cured and fermented like chewing tobacco) and you don't pyrolize it like when smoking so there are significantly to no harmful chemicals created as compared to when you light a cigarette. Sweden has the lowest rate of lung cancer in Europe supposedly due to the prevalance of snus usage instead of smoking but there really haven't been many scientific studies that aren't tainted by industry funding so I claim outright whether it's significantly healthier but it seems to be from what I'm reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus

Might be an option to consider as a transition method away from cigarettes for those that don't like nicotine gum.

04-13-2012, 06:16 AM	#358
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	I found Swedish made snus at Macs store under the brand Swedish Match General. It's $13 a tin there and about 15mg of nicotine per 0.5g portion. Snus is made of steamed tobacco bags (instead of fire cured and fermented like chewing tobacco) and you don't pyrolize it like when smoking so there are significantly to no harmful chemicals created as compared to when you light a cigarette. Sweden has the lowest rate of lung cancer in Europe supposedly due to the prevalance of snus usage instead of smoking but there really haven't been many scientific studies that aren't tainted by industry funding so I claim outright whether it's significantly healthier but it seems to be from what I'm reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus Might be an option to consider as a transition method away from cigarettes for those that don't like nicotine gum. Last edited by Hack&Lube; 04-13-2012 at 06:19 AM.